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Smart New Lease Models Send Restaurants Back to the Negotiating Table

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Instead of fixed-price rent based on floor space, some restaurants are demanding variable percentage-of-revenue rent that fluctuates with the profitability of the restaurant. As a result, areas reserved for indoor dining, typically 60% of floor space, have become less valuable. A price per sq foot model doesn’t suit landlords either.

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The Unique Challenge of Reopening a Massive Restaurant Space

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And getting it back open again, keeping in mind the different requirements and interest in food halls, fine dining, events, retail, and bars, is its own unique challenge. He launched 10 ghost kitchen operations to extend his delivery zone to new cities and regions, expanded his takeout menu, and has a large product line.

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There Really Is No Ethical Restaurant Under Capitalism

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The restaurant is named Sisko’s Creole Kitchen and exists in New Orleans in the 24th century, on an Earth that has abolished prejudice, money, and hunger. In the kitchen, there is a hierarchy. We did that because we were trying to maximize the safety of our team,” says Vartan. So the only knob left to turn is pricing.”.

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Virtual Acceleration, Raising the Bar and Insult Monitor

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This edition of MRM News Bites features a double dose from US Foods, SpotOn Transact, DoorDash Kitchens, Virtual Restaurant Consulting, Tripleseat and Gather, wagamama, Toast, The Gluten Intolerance Group, Instawork and StaffMate Online, Procurant and Yellofin, Sift, 7shifts, ParTech, Revel Systems and Como, Kabbage, Bluecrew and Cuboh.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

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Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. I said we need to put safety precautions in place. So, we knew how to do the cleaning and the distancing of the kitchen and all of that. DG: And the normal price? Absolutely.

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Does It Get Better For the Indie Fine Dining Restaurant?

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Chef Russell Jackson opened the fine dining restaurant Reverence in Harlem just months before the pandemic began. Chefs Russell Jackson and Ian Boden struggled to reconcile their visions of fine dining with their communities’ desires. Cooking is the only thing I know,” he said. “It It keeps me going.”.

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Who Are We Reopening For?

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Reopening restaurant dining rooms still puts customers and employees at risk. In all but a handful of states , it is now legal or will soon be legal to once again operate dine-in services at restaurants. So the rest of us can eat food in a dining room again? So why is it happening? I dream of eating in restaurants.